Cytoscpae Past News


Cytoscape Retreat 2007!

Amsterdam by night
Now in Europe! November 6th - 9th
Including a public symposium on November 8th, with a formidable list of confirmed speakers among them
  • Leroy Hood
  • Peter Sorger
  • Ewan Birney
Hosted by the Human Genetics Department of the Academic Medical Center in the vibrant historic city of Amsterdam.

Cytoscape 2.4.1

No new features, but several bugs have been fixed.

Cytoscape 2.4.0

Cytoscape 2.4.0 Screenshot
(Updated 1/16/2007)
New features include:
  • Publication quality image generation.
    • Node label position adjustment.
    • Automatic Visual Legend generator.
    • Node position fine-tuning by arrow keys.
    • The ability to override selected VizMap settings.
  • Quick Find plugin.
  • New icons for a cleaner user interface.
  • Consolidated network import capabilities.
    • Import network from remote data sources (through http or ftp).
    • Default support for the following file formats: SBML, BioPAX, PSI-MI, Delimited text, Excel.
  • New Ontology Server.
    • Native support for OBO format ontology files.
    • Ability to visualize the ontology tree as a network (DAG).
    • Full support for Gene Association files.
  • Support for Java SE 5
  • Many, many bug fixes!
See the Release Notes for more detail.

Cytoscape 2.3.2

(Updated 9/1/2006)
This release fixes a bug that made it impossible to save session files on Windows systems. No new features.

Cytoscape 2.3.1

(Updated 7/21/2006)
No major new features, just bug fixes and some behind-the-scenses refactoring.

Cytoscape 2.3

(Updated 06/21/2006)
New Features include:
  • High-performance rendering engine. Support for large networks (100,000+ nodes & edges)
  • Ability to save a session
  • Support for network attributes
  • An improved command line interface.
  • The GraphMerge plugin included by default
  • Enhanced context or pop-up menus for nodes
  • A rewritten bird's eye view of the network that is enabled by default
  • Enhanced Undo/Redo support
  • Enhanced Ontology Server Wizard
  • More user-friendly UI for Attribute Browser
  • Greater flexibility in expression data loading
  • Ability to rename networks
  • Re-organized menu system
  • Many performance improvements and bug fixes
Cytoscape 2.3.2 Release Notes Cytoscape 2.3.2 Screenshot

Announcing Cytoscape 2.2

(Updated 12/13/2005)
New Features include:
  • Improved node/edge attribute browsing.
  • Cytoscape Graph Editor v1.0
  • Support for Gene Ontology OBO and gene annotation (association) files
  • Cytoscape panels (CytoPanels) to ease window management
  • New GML visual style to manage visual attributes from GML files
  • Independent internal network windows for easy comparison
  • Simplified mechanism for saving Visual Styles in between sessions
  • Improved Attribute API (CyAttributes)
  • Improved performance
  • Many bugs fixed
Cytoscape 2.2 Release Notes Cytoscape 2.2 Screenshot